Scope and Content Note

This series consists of typescripts and proofs of writings by others concerning Salman Rushdie. Included are adaptations of his work, articles and essays, book-length works, book reviews, poems, scripts, speeches, theses and dissertations, and translations from 1983-2004. Adaptations include several versions of Haroun and the Sea of Stories adapted for the stage and film. The bulk of articles and essays, as well as the theses and dissertations, discuss Rushdie's major works, Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses. Another significant portion of the writings about Rushdie, especially the book-length works, address the publication of The Satanic Verses and the fatwa, or what many began to call "The Rushdie Affair." Speeches primarily include drafts of introductions of Rushdie at readings and other events.

Arrangement Note

Arranged by record type, then in alphabetical order.

Adaptations

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Content

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Bensted, Peter, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, adapted for the stage, play script, January 10, 1997

Dhanda, Harbeen, "Pickling the Past: The Revival of a Historical Sense in the Modern Novel - with Particular Reference to Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children," Dissertation, photocopy of typescript, September 1982